Cartoon Bat Coloring Page With Wide Wings and Big Eyes

Wings out, eyes wide, one branch overhead. A simple page for a kid who wants to color something with a little movement in it.

A cartoon bat hangs in the center of this page with both wings spread wide, each one scalloped along the bottom edge. It has two big round eyes, small triangle ears, and a bare branch above with a couple of leaves still attached. The wing panels are large and easy to fill while the face stays small and simple, which suits ages five to nine and works with crayons or colored pencils.

A few things that are true about bats

• Bats are the only mammals that truly fly. Other animals glide; bats flap.
• There are more than 1,400 kinds of bats, and most of them eat insects.
• They find their way in the dark by echolocation, sending out sounds too high for people to hear.
• A bat's wing is skin stretched over long finger bones, which is why the folds show.

None of that needs to be spooky. The bat here is drawn with rounded edges and a calm face, so a younger child can color it without stopping to ask what is going on.

Coloring and printing tips

• Use colored pencil on the wing folds. The lines sit close together, and a sharp tip keeps them apart.
• Print at 100% scale on US Letter; on A4, set fit to page so the branch stays inside the margin.
• Markers are fine on the wide wings, but print on cardstock (65 lb / 160 gsm) to keep the black from showing through.
• For a background, draw a circle behind the bat and fill it with pale yellow crayon for a moon.

Hang the finished page beside the spider web coloring page, or try the mummy coloring page next. More are waiting on the Halloween coloring pages hub.